Your Race Insanity of the Day
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Rachel Nichols, one of the highest profile female sports reporters in America, was recently fired from ESPN for saying this in a leaked recording:
In the July 2020 recording, Nichols, who is white, is heard suggesting that Taylor got her job hosting the marquee program NBA Countdown during the NBA finals because she is Black.
"If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it," Nichols said in the recording. "Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away."Now, I can tell you that companies, such as the one I work for, and ESPN too, have explicitly told everybody that they are going to start bending over backwards to provide opportunities to minorities, and especially Black people. They have stated these intentions because it would be racist NOT to state those intentions.
But if you mention that you think you see your company doing what it explicitly said it is going to do, you're a racist, and will be fired for it.
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20 years ago they'd have said Rachel Nichols only got the job because she was a woman
I'm no expert, but...
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@doctor-phibes said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
20 years ago they'd have said Rachel Nichols only got the job because she was a woman
And now it's because she's not a man
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@horace said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
companies, . . . have explicitly told everybody that they are going to start bending over backwards to provide opportunities to minorities, and especially Black people.
OTOH, black people are known to craft opportunities for their own selves, as witness this story Charles Barkley (black man) tells about when he and Michael Jordan (black man) were on the street and Barkley was being hustled by a panhandler. Jordan tells him not to give the guy any money. "If he can say 'got any spare change', he can say 'welcome to McDonald's.'"
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
@horace said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
companies, . . . have explicitly told everybody that they are going to start bending over backwards to provide opportunities to minorities, and especially Black people.
OTOH, black people are known to craft opportunities for their own selves, as witness this story Charles Barkley (black man) tells about when he and Michael Jordan (black man) were on the street and Barkley was being hustled by a panhandler. Jordan tells him not to give the guy any money. "If he can say 'got any spare change', he can say 'welcome to McDonald's.'"
Not sure what the point of that story is, but it would definitely not be safe to tell it in the workplace.
Education is extremely important.
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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
@horace said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
Not sure what the point of that story is,
The point of that story is that it might be safe to tell in the workplace or it might not, depending on how the listener is inclined to react.
I think you mean, depending on what the story teller looks like.
Education is extremely important.
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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
@horace said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:
I think you mean, depending on what the story teller looks like.
No, I totally do NOT mean that.
One assumes everybody is listening when telling such a story in the workplace. At that point, the only safety is in what one looks like.
